Are you using your brushes WRONG? Art Brush Secrets

Good luck painting a sky with the hazel

brush

, so anyway, as I throw it on the ground. Hi, I'm Kevin Hill and today we're going to do something different. You have been asking, at least many of you have been asking. what each

brush

specifically does and I'm going to try to give you what I think is the best thing you can do with each specific brush and what it was designed to do so I hope this is interesting okay let's get started this may seem a little obvious but actually, when you think about it, it's kind of interesting, the best thing you can do with this two inch brush, but one of the things you certainly couldn't replace with a sky, I mean, you could with one. inches, but that's all.

I mean, you know, good luck painting a sky with a hazel brush, so anyway, when I throw it on the ground, this is it with

your

two inch brush for me, this is the best tool for the job when It's just blocking out the big areas of the sky, of course,

your

cables, your darker bottom on top, you can do the whole combination right here because when it comes to at least the background section of the sky, you can really just doing the Everything with a two inch brush pretty quick and easy, so it's definitely something that's not replaceable, so I hope that gives you an idea of ​​how we're going to do the video.

I'd just like to show you thing number one. You do that with that brush, but if you try to use something else, you know, like a big, low-quality brush to paint the house. I have tons of those, but they are for painting the house properly, but they are useless. it comes out smooth, you don't get this airbrush, you get an airbrush that looks when you use a higher quality brush, so that's the difference. I never really talked about the quality of the

brushes

, but if you use a cheap brush, it shows now. I'm going to try to do it in an order that makes sense.

Many people are already laughing at me. I have a one inch brush ready to go. I went ahead and lowered the sky all the way down, a figure that would give us a nice background to show you these

brushes

, so one thing with the one inch brush that's probably the easiest thing you can do, you know, you can't make it any easier with a 3/4 or the fan you're making, trees in the background, look at this. so you know, let's say we have our little sky or whatever and you want some misty trees in the background, this is what I usually do, you probably see me do this a lot, you come in here and you do these overlapping strokes, you can just raise a tree, you can use your hazelnut to clean them, but this is the way you start, see you can literally hit it

using

the back of the brush, that makes sense like that and you get an instant canopy of soft trees. this is like a background maneuver, you wouldn't do this as much in the fort, well you can do it in the foreground as well and then just add more details to it.

Could you have some white? You know, just rub some mist on this. brush look at this darken it a little this is not a painting video this is to show you the brush strokes I don't care about the colors we could know we can do it in black and white it wouldn't matter isn't that so cool? Basically just your quick and easy background trees, a good quality one inch brush does the job very easily compared to the other brushes, so now I'm going to show you the blender brush, but to do that I have to put some on.

Paint on the canvas first because you can't paint very well with it, maybe when you're doing something like sunbursts, which I could show you how to do, but I want to show you this cloud that I'm just going to take. the hazel brush, you could do this with any other brush, really, I'm just going to grab the hazel brush, I'm going to go up to a little slippery, I don't even know what I was going to say, wet paint so slippery it looks terrible. This is where the blender brush shines well. I'm not doing this, but I'm fixing that.

I just want to show you that. You know, if you get a big mess of mud here, well, not so much money, but a big mess, you can take that blender. brush and groom it very quickly and turn it into something really nice and pretty. I'll show you that let me put that brush or at least one of my favorites and not so much the best, but just one of my favorites. things to do just pick up this brush, put it down. I like to use just the top of the brush and make circles. Now you can make a cloud like this, you know, without mixing.

I do it sometimes, but when you're learning or if. If you want to give your painting a little more refined look, try the blending brush to get really smooth edges with minimal effort, but for big chunks of paint you just grab them and blend them right away, oh suddenly, time passed. to get rid of the canvas - oh that's not so bad, in fact it looks pretty cool, isn't it great? So grab the blender brush if you're ever worried about something that looks a little rough or just weird, sometimes a nice smooth blend is all you need now let's move on to the hazelnut brush here.

I'm just going to take some dark green, it doesn't matter anymore. I think my favorite thing to do with the hazelnut brush is add larger trees, I mean, you can use it. the hazelnut brush for almost everything and it's probably my favorite brush, really for me it's the most versatile brush, I sure wouldn't want to sit there and paint an entire sky with it, but I do almost anything else with it, it's nice. brush, you can say you know I like it, but anyway, what I think maybe what I like to do the most is make them bigger, I would say that the trees and bushes in the middle of the ground have the same difference, is this tapping and especially while I was learning and I wasn't as comfortable with other brushes and other techniques, this technique was so easy just stabbing it and they look so much more detailed than if you did it with bigger brushes, you know, they give you bigger limbs, These have smaller limbs, they are more visible. detailed a little slower but just a little you know very little for me it's worth it there of course you know you don't have to stop there scroll down give yourself one or two small tree trunks I won't stand out or anything because my reflections are exactly the same manner.

Today I'm showing you brush strokes, but they're not that cool, so you just swipe up to get a couple nice little bits, it's just that when you tap there's no swipe up in the canopy area, that's probably my favorite thing. to show you with a hazelnut brush, okay, I'm ending here making a big mess, very pretty, miss, uh, just

using

the hazelnut brush, you use anything just to apply colors, just a little bit of light, dark, light , dark, etc., okay? let's leave the brush, grab a clean fan, the only brush you don't want to do this with is the fan brush because you want to keep it clean or if you do it with your fan brush, make sure you scrub it. the paper towel okay the point is you don't want anything on the brush because this is your palette and you're just going to take the paint that's on your palette and literally push it up.

It was very easy for me to decide which is my favorite technique. It's grass with the fan brush, it's easy for me to decide because just look at this result you get and I don't. I'm certainly not the person who stands out here and says you know painting is super easy, you have to practice on It doesn't happen automatically, except this. I would say that it is not really necessary to have experience. This just works. It's curious. It's the only technique I know that works without any practice to speak of, so I had to prove it.

For you it's not so cool and when you go down, I usually go ahead and end up loading just a little bit of paint on my brush and I usually go down like that just to get a little bit more grass, it's a bigger grass. You already know important things in the foreground now let's move on to the 3/4 flat brush. I'm going to load it up with some brown and black. I think that's what I like to do the most with this brush. I think he really shines when it comes to painting rocks. I could do it on that thing.

When I do it here, I'll just think about keeping things consistent, but I just wanted to show you how to make a couple of rocks. Now this brush works. I mean, each brush works for a lot of different things, so it's very difficult to do with this video, but a lot of people have asked about the details of the brushes, so here we are, let's be specific, this is just my opinion, your opinion. It will probably be different. You say it's not so good for rocks. I like him to sit in my cabin. Well I agree.

I think it would be perfect if you were painting a cabin, but this is just my opinion so you know it's not. It's not going to be the same as a lot of people, it's okay, it's just art, right, it's fun, it just doesn't matter, it's okay, anyway, there are some rocks, so it's a group of rocks, I guess in the ocean or somewhere. I want to show you how to highlight. and I think this brush really highlights well. I almost think it stands out better. You could hit them with both, anything, but look what happens when you just cut off some of that beautiful sunlight right on top of those rocks. grass color maybe add just a little bit of red just to change it up, by the way.

I mean, I know this one won't be on the website, but I have many other original paintings. The sale, including last week's, is still available at least while I'm filming this. If you are interested, definitely visit the website and look at the original paintings for sale. I don't know how long we will be offering. They're available right now, I'm just trying to narrow down my supply, so Benny, here's a painting you know every week for a video at least, so I think it would be fun to let you guys enjoy them too anyway, there you go have. just using the chisel edge of the 3/4 brush now we are going to move on to a newer brush this is the quarter inch flat it is the exact same bristle as the 3/4 flat look just in one size of a quarter of an inch, the bristles are actually a little bit more I think you know, if you just scaled it down, the bristles would be shorter, in fact, many of my students told me that the bristles should be longer.

Heard, I agree, I think they work better longer, a little softer anyway, that's how it was. more information than you wanted let me show you what I love doing with this brush. I think I found my new favorite brush for painting mountains to get to this point. Do you use whatever? I personally use 3/4 flat because it was in my hand. use whatever, it doesn't matter, but once you're here you can't go crazy, you know, you can use the round detail brush, but I like the rocky chiseled edge, you know, like it's these rocks and valleys and things with the chiseled edge. for the brush versus the round brush works better for rocks and stuff.

I think so, anyway, I just worked around here and created these little ridges and valleys, obviously you can't turn a mountain into something really great. quality hair with the brush in just a few seconds, but it gives you an idea of ​​the stroke, you need four or five colors, a lot of different things happen, you need your mountain to be crazy, but that's not the point today, you see ? how you can also do some fusion maneuvers, they are quite nice. I'm just using a little bit of white pink, it's actually some highlights, but you can literally carve your mountain, carve your highlights with this brush mmm, cute, right?

Anyway, that's one of my favorite things to do with this quarter inch plane because it's smaller, you get these more detailed areas very easily compared to something that was too big, you had a huge mountain, maybe I would use a little bit of both, maybe the small and the big, but it's nice to have options, isn't it? Now you can't watch a mountain painting video, but you know me. I can't help it. It's hard to leave it halfway. finished or at least let me get a shadow. I'll show you how to do it. Pull the shadows down, slide them to the opposite angle of your highlight and you'll get a better look that way mmm.

I love that little brushstroke there. People pay extra for that kind of thing, so you don't have to smooth everything out perfectly. Now it's time to show you the detail of the round brush. I bet you guys can guess exactly what a tree trunk looks like up here. My details were helpful. brush loaded with a little dark green and I have many students yelling at the screen it's time for comma strokes this is something I couldn't pass up. I love making comma strokes and you just don't. I don't know why it takes so long. I don't know, oh, but it's fun, it's so much fun.

I think it's more fun because you guys think it's annoying, but there's a little bit of. next string or a comedy just put the brush down, you turn it from side to side move your hand around each one touch the other like you know there look that I tell you in just a few seconds and you just have something that looks so detailed and this one here is your background, it's kind of an in-between tree, here's your actual foreground and if this were an ax painting, it would probably just be a little bit morebig to fill the canvas. a little bit more, but for the sake of this I thought it best not to fill everything anyway, we'll just do a few more of these dark ones.

I keep making these commas over and over again, the slower you go the smaller they are. They look better, that's a tip for you, well, enough of those dark ones, let me take a little bit of light color on the with the round brush again, I'm just going to highlight. I just wanted to show you that it's actually the same kind of starting out of the darkness and then working into the darkness, if that makes sense. You know, you literally start to the right in this case. the darker leaves, so you go through the blue, you don't really go through the green and then once you're done with that you work it and what that does is it allows you to do this without creating mud and then what ?

It happens when you walk in, you start to get a little bit muddy, but instead of calling him Matt, you call him midtones, oh, isn't that cool? It's a lot of fun when you work with him instead of against him. It's nice and honestly it's always been making a tree like this forever I mean ten minutes um and you get a really good result after you've spent 20 seconds you almost know or whatever you don't get a great result but you certainly get something good enough to show you that these brushes The strokes work well, the last brush that I will show you today because it is the highest brush that I offer at the moment, it is the liner brush and there are many things you can do with the liner brush, It wasn't difficult to choose my favorite. although my favorite is grass, it really is, I mean, once you understand it, by the way, here's my brush.

I can't show you too much of the palette because otherwise the palette will end up on the floor, if you know what I mean, uh, yeah, and anyway. but what I was going to say before I digress is that once you learn this movement of lowering the texture of the grass with a stroke, pulling and lifting the grass stroke. Oh, once you've learned it and understand that it's a little bit. hard to learn once you learn it oh it's fun let me can I give you a couple of tips? Can I start moving in a circle?

Know? Think of it as a circle, it's not just okay. I'm going down here, tear up the grass oh oh. I see this in my classroom all the time. Who else is painted grass like this? Yes, I know you have done it too, but do your best to think of it as a movement, just a circle, only part of that circle touching the canvas. but it's making a circle, as you can see. I usually do the light ones first, the dark ones later, they help push the light ones back. Let's see how you can create these beautiful little blades of grass, every once in a while, like they beat me like this and then do these little touches of detail like these little leaves or seats and things that I normally do with the liner brush towards the end , but just the instant details are great, right?

Of course, those things have to be connected to make sure you have enough blades of grass going through that area, so it makes sense that it's never perfect, it just has to be good enough, close enough that the viewer sees that it's a nice close-up. and detailed on the grass area as you run. of paint, your strokes tend to get a little thinner, so use that to your advantage, but hey, it takes practice, but once you get it, it's worth it, you know, just practice on a canvas, make a lot of grass, you know, use that, use a good hour to fit that's what it takes it's worth it anyway my favorite thing to do with the eyeliner brush well I'm just here talking you can take some light ones to break it up again just to add that second layer of interest I love it.

I hope it was interesting and you learned something from this quick tips video. Be sure to check out our website, our line of brushes on DVD and also the original paints that are now available. Thanks for seeing you.